Keep track of their progress, keep student informed as to their status

Give constructive feedback, be patient (particularly for GCI), and be respectful

Respond to questions within 24 hours (occasionally under 36 hours is ok)

Establish realistic work objectives and timeline expectations

Re-evaluate scope with student when significantly ahead of or behind expectations

Give them extra time on a task as warranted

Work with devs and community to facilitate acceptance of student work

Unknown Mentors

Boilerplate text to reply to unknown mentors:

Thank you a lot for being available as a GCI mentor! OSGeo mentors need to be able to guide students; hence mentors need to be experienced OSGeo contributors and need to know the community and "how things work". Could you please share some information of which specific OSGeo projects you have contributed to and worked on so far? How would you describe your areas of expertise within OSGeo? Are there any public OSGeo contributions you could link to (for example your OSGeo wiki page or your Github activity)? Are you involved in your local OSGeo chapter? This would help us to get a better idea. Thank you! And if you have not contributed to OSGeo yet, we encourage you to start contributing to OSGeo by checking out https://www.osgeo.org/community/getting-started-osgeo/ ! Thank you!